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châ⋅teau

  [sha-toh; Fr. shah-toh]
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–noun, plural -teaus, -teaux  [-tohz; Fr. -toh] .
1. (in France) a castle or fortress.
2. a stately residence imitating a distinctively French castle.
3. a country estate, esp. a fine one, in France or elsewhere on the Continent.
4. (often initial capital letter) a winegrower's estate, esp. in the Bordeaux region of France: often used as part of the name of a wine.
Also, cha⋅teau.

Origin:
1730–40; < F ≪ L castellum castellum
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cha·teau also châ·teau   (shā-tō')   
n.   pl. cha·teaus also châteaus or cha·teaux also châteaux (-tōz')
    1. A French castle.
    2. A French manor house.
  2. An estate where wine is produced and often bottled, especially in the Bordeaux region of France.
  3. A large country house.

[French château, from Old French chastel, from Latin castellum, castle; see castle.]
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Chateau

Cha`teau"\, n.; pl. Chateux. [F. ch[^a]teau a castle. See Castle.]

1. A castle or a fortress in France.

2. A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.

Note: The distinctive, French term for a fortified caste of the middle ages is ch[^a]teau-fort.

Chateau en Espagne[F.], a castle in Spain, that is, a castle in the air, Spain being the region of romance.
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chateau

in France, during the 13th and 14th centuries, a castle, or structure arranged for defense rather than for residence. Later the term came to designate any seignorial residence and so, generally, a country house of any pretensions.

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